Straighten Light Poles

August 30, 2012

Normally, shooting with a wide angle lens will distort an image. In this Photoshop trick, I'll demostrate how to straighten out the light poles that were distorted from shooting with a 16-35mm lens. Below is a summary of steps from the video above.

Use a Guide as a reference point to straighten the light pole.

Use the Rectangular Marque Tool (M) and make a selection around the light pole.

With the Marque selected, copy the selection to a new layer Command+J (Ctrl+J).

Transform the selection of the new layer Command+T (Ctrl +T).

Press and hold down Shift+Command (Shift+Ctrl) and move the top, center transformation control to the left or right.